We find what enterprise tools miss.
We've saved Fortune 500 clients millions by exposing invisible inefficiencies—the problems that show green on every dashboard while bleeding money in the background.
6 engineers. Fortune 500 proven.
What We Do
We specialize in three areas where standard tools consistently fail.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Your monitoring shows "normal operations." We find the $60K/day burning silently. We've discovered misconfigured idle resources, orphaned infrastructure, and billing anomalies that enterprise tools are never designed to detect.
Infrastructure Automation
We take legacy systems that require 40 hours of manual work and reduce them to 4. Our automation frameworks don't just run—they self-heal, self-document, and scale without human intervention.
AI Implementation
Not chatbots. Production-grade AI systems that integrate with your existing infrastructure, pass compliance requirements, and actually work at scale. Our systems are backed by published research with production validation metrics—not just demos.
How We Think
Evidence Wins
No hallucinations. No hand-waving. When data contradicts our beliefs, data wins. Every recommendation chains back to measurable proof.
Root Cause, Not Symptoms
We don't patch problems—we eliminate them. If we find waste, we trace it to the source. If we find inefficiency, we redesign the system.
Production or Nothing
A solution that works 80% of the time is worthless at enterprise scale. We validate against real load, real edge cases, and real failure modes before calling anything done.
Our Boundaries
An organization without boundaries is an organization without identity.
We Will
- Only work on problems that make humanity better off
- Expose waste, fraud, and harm when we find it
- Show our work and admit our uncertainties
- Research threats to public welfare
We Won't
- Validate predetermined conclusions for clients
- Hide uncertainties or cherry-pick data
- Enable surveillance, discrimination, or exploitation
- Work with organizations that harm the public interest
"These commitments will cost us business. We accept that trade-off."
The Founder
Saad Jamal
Founder & Lead Engineer
Saad's path to founding Astro Intelligence wasn't linear—it was shaped by a fundamental belief that the most interesting problems sit at the intersection of disciplines.
The Origin
Saad earned dual bachelor's degrees from the University of Houston: Computer Science and Biochemistry. He was accepted to multiple medical schools in Texas, but during COVID, he made a different bet.
He saw that technology—specifically AI and cloud infrastructure—would transform how every industry operates, including healthcare. He chose to build rather than practice.
That decision led to a decade of engineering work across some of the most demanding environments in enterprise IT.
Why Houston
Houston is where Mission Control lives. It's where flight controllers worked 36-hour shifts to bring Apollo 13 home, inventing solutions from spacecraft parts that weren't designed to work together.
That culture—where "impossible" just means "hasn't been solved yet"—shaped how we approach every engagement. When you grow up in the shadow of people who figured out how to get humans to the moon and back, "we've always done it this way" stops being an excuse.
"Houston, we have a problem" isn't a complaint. It's a starting point.
The Track Record
Fidelity Investments
Single-handedly identified and eliminated $22M in annual cloud waste. The company's tools showed normal operations. Found $60K/day in invisible spend through dynamic SKU allocation and power scheduling optimizations that standard monitoring couldn't detect.
Bank of America
Automated Citrix VDA installations and application migrations across 3,000+ services, maintaining 99.9% uptime for 60,000+ users while reducing deployment timelines by 40%.
Goldman Sachs
Led Azure proof-of-concepts mapping solutions to business challenges, developed automation frameworks using Terraform and ARM templates, and designed data solutions using Azure Synapse Analytics and Databricks.
NASA
Designs cloud infrastructure for FISMA High compliance environments—the most stringent federal security standards. Work spans Azure Virtual Desktop management, subscription provisioning automation, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Also worked with the U.S. Census Bureau, Energy Transfer Partners, and Department of Student Aid—each engagement reinforcing the same pattern: the biggest opportunities hide where standard tools don't look.
The Builder
Outside of client work, Saad builds products that solve problems he's personally encountered:
Vitruviana
An AI system designed to reduce documentation burden for physicians. Born from his medical school background and frustration with how much time clinicians spend on paperwork instead of patients.
NutritionPlan.io
A platform that generates personalized nutrition plans based on metabolic and genetic data—built after discovering how poorly generic diet advice served his own physiology.
The Philosophy
Saad's approach comes from an unexpected place: the gym. At 14, he discovered that the body is the world's most sophisticated feedback system. Input training and nutrition; output measurable physical change.
That principle—systematic experimentation with measurable results—became his engineering philosophy.
Test hypotheses. Measure outcomes. Iterate based on evidence. The domains change; the method doesn't.
Credentials
The Team
I lead a team of engineers who share the same obsession with finding what others miss. We're small by design—every person here has shipped production systems at enterprise scale.
We hire for curiosity, not credentials. Everyone shares the same trait: they can't stop asking "why?" and "what if?"
Saad Jamal
Founder & Lead Engineer
Umar Khan
Senior Cloud Engineer
Ryan Amir
Cloud Engineer
Musa Tahir
Process & Logistics Engineer
Omar Charakla
Engineer
Dr. Salman Farooqui
Healthcare & Vitruviana Advisor
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We partner with organizations facing problems that seem unsolvable—or problems they don't yet know they have.
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